Haaretz newspaper has affirmed that the Israeli authorities refused to compensate for the damage which extremist Jewish settlers had caused last June to the Palestinian Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha near the Sea of Galilee.

The Israeli authorities even refuses to repair the extensive material damage which the Church has sustained in the settlers' arson attack, the newspaper added.

Haaretz newspaper quoted Father Nicodemus Schnabel, spokesman for the Benedictine Order in the 1948 occupied lands, as saying that the Israeli property tax authority had informed the Church leaders that it would not pay any compensation for the fire damage at the pretext that it was an anti-Christian hate crime and not a terror attack.

The Israeli occupation police said they closed the case of the Molotov cocktail attack on a Palestinian house which happened about two months ago in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, at the pretext that the perpetrator was unidentified.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the central investigation unit of the Israeli police announced its decision in this regard in a letter sent to the Israeli group "Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR)," which helped the victimized Palestinian family file a complaint on the attack.

RHR, for its part, expressed doubts that proper investigation methods were used to track down the attackers.

The attack took place in early October when Jewish settlers tossed Molotov cocktails into the house of a Palestinian family in al-Khader town, but luckily none of the incendiaries caused fire.

The same settlers also damaged 33 grape seedlings, tomato saplings and raspberry trees near the house.

Price tag gangs have often desecrated Islamic and Christian sacred places of worship.

Observers said the fact that such a terrorist mob has been granted a quasi-systematic immunity from the occupation authorities stands as a barefaced proof of the inherently sadistic and preplanned nature of Israeli terrorism against the Palestinian people and Islamic holy sites.

Dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects if tear gas inhalation, Friday, while around fifty trees were burnt, after Israeli soldiers invaded Kufur Qaddoum, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, and assaulted the village's weekly protest.

Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements Morad Eshteiwy said that, shortly after the protesters marched from the center of the village, the soldiers started firing rubber-coated steel bullets, and dozens of gas bombs, causing scores of protesters to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

Eshteiwy said that the soldiers also conducted training in Palestinian orchards belonging to the villagers, causing around fifty olive tree to burn.

The army used excessive force against the nonviolent protesters, and tried to prevent them from continuing their procession, an issue that led to clashes with local youths, who hurled stones and empty bottles on army vehicles, and burnt car tires.